Editorial: Three cheers to those honoring 9/11 with deeds

To all who took part in the National Day of Service on 9/11. This has been an important endeavor to help others in remembrance of the victims, survivors and first responders who sacrificed much on that fateful day.

In December 2001, Congress has designated Sept. 11 of each year as "Patriot Day," and, in 2009, it requested the observance of that day as an annually recognized "National Day of Service and Remembrance."

This year, many service projects were adopted within our local community, including a forest planting project by carried out by students of Vassar College and the Student Conservation Association. The tree planting occurred on Vassar College's farm and ecological preserve in Poughkeepsie and took three days to complete.

To honor the National Day of Service on 9/11, Poughkeepsie Journal employees donated items to the Semper Fi Parents of the Hudson Valley, a military support group. The donated items will go to servicemen and servicewomen overseas.

To Hudson Valley Honor Flight, a nonprofit organization which transports World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit their memorials. The group, based in Orange County, has flown more than a dozen Dutchess County vets so far, with more signed up to make the next trip.

Each one-day round trip, which flies out of Stewart International Airport, costs approximately $50,000 and is financed by donations - there is no cost to the vets. The veterans are taken to the World War II Memorial, built in 2004, the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

The veterans are accompanied by guardians who cover their own costs.

For more information, please visit: www.hvhonorflight.com.

To theZion Episcopal Church, which recently held an anniversary party for parish couples who have been married for 40 years or more.

Eleven couples attended the party in celebration of their long-lasting unions. Collectively, the couples represent nearly 500 years of marriage, including a pair who have been married for 66 years.

The party was organized by Zion Episcopal's Pastoral Care Committee. Committee member Nadine Revheim said, "This church has so many married couples and (the party) is another way of caring for people in the community."

Kudos to Zion Episcopal Church in Wappingers Falls for organizing the event and kudos to the couples who have celebrated a lifetime together.

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